<div dir="ltr">Hello Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I'm happy to announce that my eleventh book: <u>"The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, and Biology, and How They Change our Lives" </u> was published today, July 21st by Simon & Schuster (Scribner) in hardcover, Kindle and audio book formats. Please take a look on Amazon.com (available at a discount), at S&S or on my new personal website:</div><div><a href="http://www.stephenbuchmann.com/">www.stephenbuchmann.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>There is a chapter on bees and other pollinators, and also sections on fossil pollinators and fossil flowers. The book is getting some nice media attention and reviews. I was on NPR's All Things Considered on July 18th "Birds, Bees And The Power of Sex Appeal: The Ribald Lives of Flowers."</div><div><a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/07/18/423478625/birds-bees-and-the-power-of-sex-appeal-the-ribald-lives-of-flowers" style="color:rgb(84,161,213);text-decoration:none;outline:none;font-weight:bold;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(84,161,213);font-family:Ubuntu;font-size:14px;line-height:24px">http://www.npr.org/2015/07/18/423478625/birds-bees-and-the-power-of-sex-appeal-the-ribald-lives-of-flowers</a> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for listening and reading,</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen Buchmann, Ph.D.</div><div>Departments of Entomology and </div><div>Ecology and Evolutionary Biology</div><div>The University of Arizona</div><div>and</div><div>Scientist at Large</div><div>The Pollinator Partnership</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Stephen Buchmann</b></div><div dir="ltr">My new book from Scribner (July 21, 2015)<div><b><font size="2"><u>The Reason for Flowers: </u></font></b></div><div><font size="2"><u>Their History, Culture, and Biology,</u></font></div><div><font size="2"><u>and How They Change our Lives</u></font></div><div><b>Available now at a discounted price on Amazon.com</b></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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